The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX9017 Private Charles Roland Bird, 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of B Force. The 1494 POW's that made up B Force, were transported from Changi on 7 July 1942 on board the tramp ship Ubi Maru, arriving in Sandakan Harbour on 18 July 1942. Private Bird, aged 28, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 26 July 1945. He was the son of Roland and Beatrice Agnes Bird, of East Fremantle, WA. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 18. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX67878 Private James Emmanuel Bird, 87th Light Aid Detachment, Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) h
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8420 Sapper Robert Percy Small, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in th
WA. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of WX8008 Sapper Henry Walter Thurston, 2/6th Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
Vic. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of VX36935 Private John Kingston Bird, No. 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the San
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX23033 Private Roland Dudley Stone, 8th Divisional Provost Company, Australian Army Provost Corps. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (PO
NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX67306 Sapper Arthur Walter Bird, Headquarters 8th Division, Royal Australian Engineers. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in
